David W. Bapst

PhD Candidate

University of Chicago

Contact Info

David W. Bapst

Hinds Geophysical Sciences

5734 S. Ellis

Chicago, IL 60637

dwbapst@uchicago.edu

I study the interaction between ecology and diversity in the fossil record using the planktic graptolites, the Eugraptoloidea, a clade of colonial zooplankton from the lower Paleozoic. My dissertation research focuses on their phylogenetic relationships, developing methods for measuring hydrodynamic function from their morphology and analysis of this data with phylogenetic comparative methods.

Me at the Burgess Shale, August 2008!
(Photo taken by J. Wittmer)

© David Bapst, 2012.